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Post by graywolfr1 on Aug 14, 2021 9:11:36 GMT
Hi All
New member just joined, in middle of rebuilding a 1980 250N.
In past hae owned both the 250 and 400N, a CJ250T amongst others like a Z650, CBR1000, 350ypvs.
Present bikes are Yamaha R1, GPz750R and the superdream.
Will be asking lots of questions about the rebuild that I hope members with more expierence than me will be able to answer as this has been a fun rebuild up to know with all the issues I found.
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Post by stevegbr on Aug 14, 2021 9:22:37 GMT
hello and welcome to the forum.
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Post by graywolfr1 on Aug 14, 2021 9:42:25 GMT
Hi Steve
See you owned a FS1E, my first bike(too many years ago to think about) when I was 16 was the FS1M followed by 2 AR125's(wrote one off when a car pulled out of a side road)
Will be asking lots of questions no doubt about my rebuild
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Post by reversespin on Aug 14, 2021 15:56:33 GMT
hi and welcome there's plenty of good info on the Forum and all the best with your rebuild
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Post by tucksie on Aug 14, 2021 16:50:41 GMT
Hello.
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Post by terryc on Aug 14, 2021 19:19:01 GMT
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Post by ian on Aug 14, 2021 20:29:34 GMT
Hi GW, welcome along. Looking forward to tales of your SD resto.
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Post by graywolfr1 on Aug 15, 2021 7:11:32 GMT
Hi Ian, so far its been fun, bought it as a non- runner with the intention of quick tidy up, get it running and move onto next project, its turned into a complete rebuild. Stripped it right down, scrapped the horrible fairing it had on to turn it back into a naked SD. So far Ive had lots of parts powder coated, replaced wheel bearings, swinging arm bushes, sanded and polished casing as they were in a right mess, engine had only a little compression so that's stripped right down(needed doing as one of the engine mounting bolts sheared off and had to take it to a machine shop to drill out (heat didnt budge it). Once I cleaned bottom casing of 40 years of road dirt and caked on oil found a hairline crack so thats at a welders to sort out before I rebuild engine with new seals and bearings. Compression issue was gummed up rings.
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Post by Graeme on Aug 15, 2021 17:02:26 GMT
Welcome to the forum.
Gee.
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